The existence of a cheaper iPhone 5C has already been confirmed by the investigation carried out into working practices at a Pegatron factory late last month. We’ve even seen the matching plastic packaging the iPhone 5C is meant to ship in. Now we get to look at the plastic back casing of the new, cheaper iPhone in great detail.

SonnyDickson, a website dedicated to sharing information about internal leaks and prototypes from Apple, has published a 58 image gallery of the iPhone 5C housing. We’ve included a few shots above, but the full gallery covers every angle of the casing in great detail.

Although these images could be fake, the quality and detail on offer suggests they are not. Someone has managed to get the plastic casing off an assembly line and into the hands of someone willing to share it with the world.

A cheaper iPhone would certainly help Apple expand its market share in countries where cheap Android alternatives are widely available and/or the general population just cannot afford Apple’s current iPhone range. Such a handset would also allow Apple to market the smartphone like it does the iPod, with multiple color variants to suite most tastes.

As for when such a handset will appear. The smart money is on the premium iPhone 5S launching first in late September followed by the iPhone 5C several weeks later. That way Apple can keep a clear divide between the two and hopefully not hurt sales of either device.